Visual Arts, University of Warwick
Thesis title:
My thesis looks at both the conceptualisation and the practical arrangement of the Swedish home during the period 1890-1917 with the aim of grasping how the socialisation and democratisation of art was perceived to have factored into the wider goal of social change in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Of particular interest is the role that the home played in the contemporary socio-cultural reform movement, including how the inclusion of various types of art in the home functioned as a strategy by which a more beautiful and moral society could be achieved. Proceeding from a broad understanding of the concept ‘art in the home’, my thesis presents a narrative at the intersection of art, design, architectural, and social histories.
December 2022 (upcoming). 'Poor Design? "Poverty" as the Bedrock of Swedish Modern Design', Place and Folk Cultures: Mediation and Display session at the Design History Society's 'Folk' Cultures in Everyday Objects seminar series. Online event.
October 2022 (upcoming). 'A Habitable Whole: Ellen Key's Strand and the Principles of Artistic Living', Home is Where the Art is. Critical Perspectives on Artistic Residences in the Nordic Countries 1850–1950 session at the 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries. Online event.
April 2022. 'Where There's Life: The Paintings at Ellen Key's Strand from a Vitalist Perspective', Critical Explorations of Nordic Art and Vitalism panel at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference. Online event.
May 2021. 'Nice and Clean: Hygienic Aesthetics in the Swedish Home around 1900', Joint Coventry-Warwick Post-Graduate Research Symposium, Coventry University and University of Warwick. Online event.
My research interests are mainly in Swedish and Scandinavian visual art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as related histories of architecture and design.
Other interests include:
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